Two of the most devastating and deadly coal mine disasters in Wyoming history hit Kemmerer mines over a 13-month period from ...

America has always been a nation made and remade by disasters. The ones you know about are just the tip of the iceberg. Under the surface are the events that made lawmakers rewrite the rules, forced ...

Natural disasters have been shaping the path of human history for thousands of years. They leave behind stories of destruction, fatalities, and eventually, survival. They also leave behind stories of ...

FEMA workers help residents who lost homes in the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires apply for aid. Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images When the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency ...

When United Airlines Flight 718 and Trans World Airlines Flight 2 collided in midair above the Grand Canyon on a June morning in 1956—the spinning props of the United DC-7 slicing into the fuselage of ...

NOAA kept a database of disasters that exceeded $1 billion in damage since 1980, but the agency halted the project amid ...

The damage is expected to far exceed the $16 billion in economic losses from Maui's wildfires two years ago. Weather now ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s urban search and rescue team resigned after the deadly July 4, 2025, Texas floods, he told colleagues he was frustrated ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Susan L. Cutter, University of South Carolina (THE CONVERSATION) When the head of the ...